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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
We all misread you? If everyone else thinks that you are saying something that you are not saying, maybe you misread the way the above statement reads to the general population. I couldn't even follow the 80% argument you claimed I was making. I was just interpreting the plain meaning of your statement.
I am not sending you Kim Possible's phone number if you keep up this charade that we've jumped all over you for no good reason.
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I don't think I said all other choices are bad, only that we were proud of having followed through with the choice we made even though it got rough. Does that mean I think all women who started out saying "no drugs, please!" but wound up saying "Epidural!" when they got into their thirteenth hour somehow pussed out? Unequivocally no, and I said as much. And then I said it again. But if you want to discuss it further, I suppose I will, until I have time to ketchup on the FB.
As for my philosophical musing about what we'll think of the miracle of birth when we succeed in making delivery just another outpatient elective medical procedure, I guess we'll never agree. Yes, we'll have that whole "Holy shit, I made a life!" response, but culturally some of that awe is tied up in the Awful Childbirth Stories we trade with each other. Will it be the same when those stories are as distant in time as, say, stories of slavery are to us today? Or was slavery a thoroughly more vivid influence on people's perceptions of each other when there were still living people who had experienced it firsthand? To me, the idea that we'll think about life differently when all pain is eliminated from childbirth (which is inevitable, and on balance a good thing) is self evident. But I guess I'm alone in that.
